The proposed Coastal Zone Management notification, which is expected to
replace the existing Coastal Regulation Zone notification (1991), will
hit the coastline like a second tsunami, say activists. With the shifting
of `zones', entire fishing communities will be moved out of coastal areas,
making way for unbridled construction in the name of `development'
P N Venugopal reports.

Crores of taxpayer rupees are spent by government institutes each year on fisheries technology and research. How much does this impact the lives of the average fish hawkers who vend on foot? Is there any impact at all?
M Suchitra visited one Kerala hawker, at a coastal village near Kochi.

Though numerous attempts have been made to rehabilitate sex workers across India,
not many have succeeded. Here is a success story on the rehabilitation of sex
workers in the town of Muvattupuzha, Kerala Sandhya Mary reports.